By Lisa Iesse Writer Norfolk County\u2019s Bayview cemetery, is within a one kilometre radius of First Nation burial sites dating back thousands of years. Tanya Hill-Montour, a Six Nations archaeological supervisor says there are \u201cIndigenous burials all over\u201d the area of Long Point near where the Bayview cemetery, built by European settlers in the 1800s, sits. Long Point is a beach landform on the north shore of Lake Erie. She said there are at least six burial sites in the Long Point area, just within a 1 km radius. The soft \u201csandy soil\u201d, which is easy to dig, made the space ideal for First Nations ancestors to bury their loved ones back then, explained Montour. It\u2019s also the site of the well known \u201cShaman of Long Point\u201d an Indigenous man… <\/p>\n
By Lisa Iesse Writer Norfolk County\u2019s Bayview cemetery, is within a one kilometre radius of First Nation burial sites dating back thousands of years. Tanya Hill-Montour, a Six Nations archaeological supervisor says there are \u201cIndigenous burials all over\u201d the area of Long Point near where the Bayview cemetery, built by European settlers in the 1800s, sits. Long Point is a beach landform on the north shore of Lake Erie. She said there are at least six burial sites in the Long Point area, just within a 1 km radius. The soft \u201csandy soil\u201d, which is easy to dig, made the space ideal for First Nations ancestors to bury their loved ones back then, explained Montour. It\u2019s also the site of the well known \u201cShaman of Long Point\u201d an Indigenous man... <\/p>\n